Office Hours Activism and Change in the Academy [Hardcover]

In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers alternative futures for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the internet, faculty unionization, and campus organizing. Office Hoursis a roll-up-your-sleeves look at the avoidable disaster facing the modern university.Cary Nelsonis Jubilee Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stephen Wattis Chair of the Department of English, Indiana University. They are coauthors of Academic Keywords, also published by Routledge.